Rajorajorajo | 29 Sep 2010 | 255 Views | 0 Likes | 0 Dislikes

I Love YouTube: The Larry King Game

Aside from being a great character actor and pretty funny all-around, Kevin Pollak is mostly known for two things: His pro-level impressions of Johnny Carson and Christopher Walken. Oh, and his William Shatner is classic, so three things.

But what really makes him a valuable asset to the human race in this fast-lane super-twitter post-9/11 world is that he has many famous and talented celebrity friends. Furthermore, he likes to chat with them and even-furthermore he tapes these chats and puts them up on the internet - first as a 'live broadcast' streaming from his site every Sunday (with which one can interact via online chat), and then archived on his YouTube channel and iTunes, available for free, anytime, anywhere, to anybody. This is the future of television, hopefully.

While the show can (and often does) stretch out to 2 hours or more and can include swears and other too-hot-for-tv moments, it does have a lot in common with the average televised chat-show format, like an opening monologue and a sidekick (Samm Levine). It's even shot to look like the set of Charlie Rose. And of course, what chat show worth it's salt doesn't have recurring segments, made fresh each and every time by the random guest who happens to be booked?

Among the funny and interesting segments Pollak has come up with is The Larry King game, in which the guests are asked to do an impression of the legendary CNN broadcaster. The requirements are as follows:

1) The guest must reveal something personal/embarrassing about themselves (as Larry King)
2) The guest must then 'go to the phones'

Pollak's done over 60 episodes of his chat show, meaning there should be over 60 youtube clips of celebrities doing a Larry King impression online. Here are our favourites. Watch them, and then look for your favourites by visiting www.kevinpollakschatshow.com.

ROB HUEBEL